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Article: Royal Clipper.(cruise ship)
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- Cruise Travel
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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The World's Biggest, Bloomin' Sailing Ship
Five tall, bare, pole masts rose above everything else in the far distance. Once we were beyond the breakwater, the full length of a shapely steel hull appeared, stretching forward from a rounded overhang at the stem to the angular raked bow. A thick black stripe ran the full length, and black gun-port squares below gave the ship a sense of importance. And if one did not have a passenger ticket in hand, this vessel might pass for a man-of-war, or at least a commercial cargo carrier.
The Royal Clipper's purposeful appearance contrasts sharply with her running-mates, the Star Flyer and Star Clipper, both of which ...
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